There are two components to whether a business is successful, bottom-line-wise: high revenues and low expenses.
Is it okay to break a promise?
Honor your word. If you make a promise, keep it. Look someone in the eye, shake his or her hand, and then stick with the deal you made.
This is a philosophy instilled in many of us from childhood. Keep your promises. Be true to your word. But what happens to this principle in the world of the entrepreneur?
What the *#@%#*# is the Audrey principle?
Here is an interesting idea, courtesy (and used with permission of) one of my clients:
How often have you found yourself using negative, even cursing adjectives when describing an object?
- Where are my #@%@# glasses?
- Give me the @%##*# remote for the TV!
- The %#@%# newspaper got all wet sitting in the rain in the driveway!
Excuse Me, But Do You Have The Time?
Are we there yet? For those of you who are parents, and for the rest of us who remember being a kid, wasn’t this a common question on any car ride? Now, as then, we are all eager to get to where we are going. In life and in business, we are all interested in achieving our goals.
Excuse Me: Did You Have Enough Information Before You Made That Decision?
We live in the “information age.” Mankind now generates approximately the same amount of information in the one day that we created from the beginning of recorded history to the year 2003. The amount of content that Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube spawn is staggering. Type in a search term or phrase into your favorite search engine, and you will likely get results measured in the millions or billions.
Excuse Me – Who is Your Boss?
One of the main reasons that a lot of people give for why they become entrepreneurs is that they do not want to work for someone else. Sometimes this feeling arises early in life. I knew early on that the best person for me to work for was me.
Excuse Me, Does Size Matter?
I deal a lot with entrepreneurs, both ones starting a new business and those whose business is already operating. Quite often, these entrepreneurs are operating what would be termed a very small business. These enterprises are designed essentially to support or provide additional funds for the founder and perhaps her family. When you look at the literature about smaller entrepreneurial ventures, you’ll often see two terms: solopreneur and micropreneur. But what do these terms mean?
Annabolic Times-Excuse Me, You’re Fired!
I hope this finds you very well and enjoying your summer.
As solopreneurs, we don’t often have the experience of hiring employees; more often subcontractors. However, there is an important lesson below should you ever decide to go down that path.
Enjoy the below video! You may recognize someone in it.
CLICK HERE: REASON 29: VIDEO
Excerpted and adapted from “Seventy Reasons Not to be an Entrepreneur (and why I wouldn’t do anything else)” Copyright 2013 by Michael A. Babiarz, all rights reserved.
Reason Number 29: Hiring is a &**& and firing is a bigger *(**. Hiring is not a fun process. For the small businessman, if the size of the company mandates employees, it is a process that will need to be repeated, time and time again. Your employees will quit. When they quit, replacing them means going through the painful hiring process all over again. But what if an employee needs to be let go?